I said my view is from experience; coworkers, family, friends. Nearly everyone I work with is a democrat. We sometimes talk about politics in depth. I think I have a pretty good understanding of where they're coming from. I think you have no chance of ever drowning in the pool of your worldview. You call them shallow, which reveals the lack of your own depth. It sounds an awful lot to me like your opinion of them is derived from your ideological beliefs, and not from actual experience. Or, I dunno. Maybe you only ever encounter the radical, AOC type democrats. I can see why you might have a general resentment of that.
I think I formerly had such a shallow world view. It seemed to me that Democrats were pretty much as you think. And then I talk in depth with them, and get to know what their views actually are, and while I still don't agree with them, their behaviors and beliefs and depth were discordant with my worldview of them. I can either choose to continue to keep my worldview and ignore or discount the new information, or I can adjust my worldview to include the new information. Not every Democrat is AOC. Especially the blue-dog working class types.
My SIL is an AOC type, mostly. She says she's a moderate. But I think that's only because she lives in a bubble where everyone around her pretty much thinks the same way she does. But even she doesn't fit the mold you've imagined. I went to a family graduation last year. She stands for the national anthem, hand over heart, facing the flag. Pledges allegiance. Stands and applauds the graduates planning to go into the armed services. She has several behaviors, in fact, that are not bat**** crazy. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty of bat**** crazy going on there. But she doesn't fit the mold completely.
I think if you don't allow reality to inform your worldview more than ideology, you're going to go around thinking the worst of people you don't even know. You're going to assert that they have hold views they don't actually hold. You're going to make a lot of false assumptions, which it seems you've done with Alpo. And maybe you don't care. But I kinda like reality more than I like ideologically fed worldviews. It's just more accurate. Some people are quite bad, but most people aren't as bad as you think, even if they vote Democrat.
